4.1 - Engineered Ecosystems & Modern Agriculture by Ashley Sykes https://padlet.com/as10aj/bwgnfgnsu40l en-us 2014-12-05 23:58:00 UTC 2025-10-01 14:02:09 UTC hello@padlet.com Comparing Natural Vs. Engineered Ecosystems  as10aj https://padlet.com/as10aj/bwgnfgnsu40l/wish/57869805 2015-04-22 17:12:54 UTC https://padlet.com/as10aj/bwgnfgnsu40l/wish/57869805 Modern Agriculture  as10aj https://padlet.com/as10aj/bwgnfgnsu40l/wish/57869869 2015-04-22 17:13:13 UTC https://padlet.com/as10aj/bwgnfgnsu40l/wish/57869869 Agriculture in Canada  as10aj https://padlet.com/as10aj/bwgnfgnsu40l/wish/57869911 2015-04-22 17:13:27 UTC https://padlet.com/as10aj/bwgnfgnsu40l/wish/57869911 Foods from Afar as10aj https://padlet.com/as10aj/bwgnfgnsu40l/wish/57869933 2015-04-22 17:13:32 UTC https://padlet.com/as10aj/bwgnfgnsu40l/wish/57869933 Farmlands as Engineered Ecosystems as10aj https://padlet.com/as10aj/bwgnfgnsu40l/wish/57870098 2015-04-22 17:14:20 UTC https://padlet.com/as10aj/bwgnfgnsu40l/wish/57870098 Comparing Natural Ecosystems & Agroecosystems as10aj https://padlet.com/as10aj/bwgnfgnsu40l/wish/57870125 2015-04-22 17:14:26 UTC https://padlet.com/as10aj/bwgnfgnsu40l/wish/57870125 Monocultures as10aj https://padlet.com/as10aj/bwgnfgnsu40l/wish/57870237 2015-04-22 17:14:57 UTC https://padlet.com/as10aj/bwgnfgnsu40l/wish/57870237 Benefits of Monocultures  as10aj https://padlet.com/as10aj/bwgnfgnsu40l/wish/57870262 2015-04-22 17:15:04 UTC https://padlet.com/as10aj/bwgnfgnsu40l/wish/57870262 Drawbacks of Monoculture as10aj https://padlet.com/as10aj/bwgnfgnsu40l/wish/57870356 2015-04-22 17:15:25 UTC https://padlet.com/as10aj/bwgnfgnsu40l/wish/57870356 Rachel and Naomi  https://padlet.com/as10aj/bwgnfgnsu40l/wish/57870920 Natural ecosystems have a great variety of organisms while engined ecosystems, have fewer types

Of organisms

]]> 2015-04-22 17:17:48 UTC https://padlet.com/as10aj/bwgnfgnsu40l/wish/57870920 Michael And Jakob https://padlet.com/as10aj/bwgnfgnsu40l/wish/57870992 engineered ecosystems tend to have lower biodiversity than natural ecosystems

]]> 2015-04-22 17:18:06 UTC https://padlet.com/as10aj/bwgnfgnsu40l/wish/57870992 Rachel and Naomi  https://padlet.com/as10aj/bwgnfgnsu40l/wish/57871261 The food you eat comes from a number of different farms

]]> 2015-04-22 17:19:09 UTC https://padlet.com/as10aj/bwgnfgnsu40l/wish/57871261 Dar and Sam  https://padlet.com/as10aj/bwgnfgnsu40l/wish/57871326 Agriculture is a major industry in Canada

-it produces a large variety of food

]]> 2015-04-22 17:19:25 UTC https://padlet.com/as10aj/bwgnfgnsu40l/wish/57871326 Aili, Neena  https://padlet.com/as10aj/bwgnfgnsu40l/wish/57871517 - engineered ecosystems is designed to fulfill a specific function.

]]> 2015-04-22 17:20:05 UTC https://padlet.com/as10aj/bwgnfgnsu40l/wish/57871517 Rachel and Naomi  https://padlet.com/as10aj/bwgnfgnsu40l/wish/57871525 Most don think about where there food comes from or how it's production affects the environment

]]> 2015-04-22 17:20:07 UTC https://padlet.com/as10aj/bwgnfgnsu40l/wish/57871525 michael and jakob https://padlet.com/as10aj/bwgnfgnsu40l/wish/57871533 nearly all of the food produced in canada were introduced from other parts of the world

]]> 2015-04-22 17:20:09 UTC https://padlet.com/as10aj/bwgnfgnsu40l/wish/57871533 Rachel and Naomi  https://padlet.com/as10aj/bwgnfgnsu40l/wish/57871750 Nearly all of the foods produced in Canada were introduced from other parts of the world

]]> 2015-04-22 17:20:56 UTC https://padlet.com/as10aj/bwgnfgnsu40l/wish/57871750 Dar and Sam  https://padlet.com/as10aj/bwgnfgnsu40l/wish/57871860 -growing only one type of plant in a field helps farmers get the higher crop yields per hectar without competition of other species

]]> 2015-04-22 17:21:19 UTC https://padlet.com/as10aj/bwgnfgnsu40l/wish/57871860 michael and jakob https://padlet.com/as10aj/bwgnfgnsu40l/wish/57871904 the variety of agricultural farms from the cranberry bogs of BC to the potato fields of PEI

]]> 2015-04-22 17:21:28 UTC https://padlet.com/as10aj/bwgnfgnsu40l/wish/57871904 Rachel and Naomi  https://padlet.com/as10aj/bwgnfgnsu40l/wish/57872079 Most common example of an engineered Ecosystem

]]> 2015-04-22 17:22:11 UTC https://padlet.com/as10aj/bwgnfgnsu40l/wish/57872079 Keefe https://padlet.com/as10aj/bwgnfgnsu40l/wish/57872237 Monoculture are argroecosystems (Farms) consisting of single crops in a single area

]]> 2015-04-22 17:22:41 UTC https://padlet.com/as10aj/bwgnfgnsu40l/wish/57872237 Rachel and Naomi  https://padlet.com/as10aj/bwgnfgnsu40l/wish/57872312 In an agroecosystem a very limited number of species interact

]]> 2015-04-22 17:22:57 UTC https://padlet.com/as10aj/bwgnfgnsu40l/wish/57872312 Rachel and Naomi  https://padlet.com/as10aj/bwgnfgnsu40l/wish/57872512 There is very little biodiversity in monoculture

]]> 2015-04-22 17:23:46 UTC https://padlet.com/as10aj/bwgnfgnsu40l/wish/57872512 Dar and Sam  https://padlet.com/as10aj/bwgnfgnsu40l/wish/57872576 The farm that it could have came from could have come thousands of km

Away from your home

]]> 2015-04-22 17:23:58 UTC https://padlet.com/as10aj/bwgnfgnsu40l/wish/57872576 Michael And Jakob https://padlet.com/as10aj/bwgnfgnsu40l/wish/57872815 using non-native plants and animals allows us to enjoy a variety of nutritios foods

]]> 2015-04-22 17:24:37 UTC https://padlet.com/as10aj/bwgnfgnsu40l/wish/57872815 Rachel and Naomi  https://padlet.com/as10aj/bwgnfgnsu40l/wish/57872853 Crops can be harvested quickly and easily because the same kinds of equipment can be used for the entire crop

]]> 2015-04-22 17:24:45 UTC https://padlet.com/as10aj/bwgnfgnsu40l/wish/57872853 Dar and Sam  https://padlet.com/as10aj/bwgnfgnsu40l/wish/57872989 The features of engineered ecosystems do not vary as much as natural ecosystems

]]> 2015-04-22 17:25:07 UTC https://padlet.com/as10aj/bwgnfgnsu40l/wish/57872989 Michael And Jakob https://padlet.com/as10aj/bwgnfgnsu40l/wish/57873179 agroecosystem: an agricultural ecosystem designed and maintaind by humans to met the human need for foo

]]> 2015-04-22 17:25:44 UTC https://padlet.com/as10aj/bwgnfgnsu40l/wish/57873179 Rachel and Naomi  https://padlet.com/as10aj/bwgnfgnsu40l/wish/57873436 Whole fields of monoculture crops can be wiped out by a single disease

]]> 2015-04-22 17:26:17 UTC https://padlet.com/as10aj/bwgnfgnsu40l/wish/57873436 Aili, neena https://padlet.com/as10aj/bwgnfgnsu40l/wish/57873753 - in a natural ecosystem, the human influence is no greater than the influence of any other species.

]]> 2015-04-22 17:27:12 UTC https://padlet.com/as10aj/bwgnfgnsu40l/wish/57873753 Keefe https://padlet.com/as10aj/bwgnfgnsu40l/wish/57873806 Monocultures are in places of an enormous strain on soil nurients

]]> 2015-04-22 17:27:16 UTC https://padlet.com/as10aj/bwgnfgnsu40l/wish/57873806 Michael and Jakob https://padlet.com/as10aj/bwgnfgnsu40l/wish/57873913 in a natural ecosystem many different species interact

]]> 2015-04-22 17:27:39 UTC https://padlet.com/as10aj/bwgnfgnsu40l/wish/57873913 Michael and Jakob https://padlet.com/as10aj/bwgnfgnsu40l/wish/57874182 sometimes one crop takes up thousands of acres

]]> 2015-04-22 17:28:29 UTC https://padlet.com/as10aj/bwgnfgnsu40l/wish/57874182 Michael and Jakob https://padlet.com/as10aj/bwgnfgnsu40l/wish/57874389 plants can grow larger without competition from other species

]]> 2015-04-22 17:29:20 UTC https://padlet.com/as10aj/bwgnfgnsu40l/wish/57874389 Michael and Jakob  https://padlet.com/as10aj/bwgnfgnsu40l/wish/57874818 insect plants known as plant hoppers destroyed thousands of tonnes of the rice crop in vietnam and china

]]> 2015-04-22 17:31:04 UTC https://padlet.com/as10aj/bwgnfgnsu40l/wish/57874818 Aili, Neena  https://padlet.com/as10aj/bwgnfgnsu40l/wish/57875888 - In a natural ecosystem, many different species interact, maintaining a natural balance in the ecosystem.

]]> 2015-04-22 17:36:02 UTC https://padlet.com/as10aj/bwgnfgnsu40l/wish/57875888 Jordan and Noah https://padlet.com/as10aj/bwgnfgnsu40l/wish/57875919 Engineered ecstems are different from natural ecosystems in several ways

]]> 2015-04-22 17:36:10 UTC https://padlet.com/as10aj/bwgnfgnsu40l/wish/57875919 Jordan and Noah  https://padlet.com/as10aj/bwgnfgnsu40l/wish/57877073 The food you get could be from a number of different farms

]]> 2015-04-22 17:41:49 UTC https://padlet.com/as10aj/bwgnfgnsu40l/wish/57877073 Jordan and Noah  https://padlet.com/as10aj/bwgnfgnsu40l/wish/57877700 It produces a lot of variety of foods

]]> 2015-04-22 17:44:40 UTC https://padlet.com/as10aj/bwgnfgnsu40l/wish/57877700 Jordan and noah https://padlet.com/as10aj/bwgnfgnsu40l/wish/57879120 Toppings on a Hawaiian come from canada

]]> 2015-04-22 17:51:09 UTC https://padlet.com/as10aj/bwgnfgnsu40l/wish/57879120 Aili,neena  https://padlet.com/as10aj/bwgnfgnsu40l/wish/57880327 - tomato souse ,cheese ,ham are grown in Canada but non are from species native to canada

]]> 2015-04-22 17:56:40 UTC https://padlet.com/as10aj/bwgnfgnsu40l/wish/57880327